Fight or Flight?

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Fight or Flight?

When you stand and look at me

What is it that you think you see?

The truth that hides within these eyes

Cannot be forced or compromised.

A reflection only, but just the same

It is a ghost that wears your name

For in my eyes it's YOU, you see

Reflecting back at you through me.

Do not think you've earned my trust

For I've been hiding under battle lust

I am guarded and I am strong

Your judgement cast won't sting for long

And no matter that you've turned away

I know that look, those words you'll say

That within your eyes I see the same

This haunted ghost that bears my name.

When you stand and see yourself

Reflecting back through all this dust

That has settled on your tired heart

Weights so strong you're ripped apart

Out of the ash this heart is born

And through humanity is slowly torn

As we fight, cursed to genocide

Designed for the battle and then to die.

Power that is absolute

Allows there to be no room for truth

Together we can change the earth

Separation leads to separate birth

Within these eyes I've been forsaking

Denying the poison of our own making.

Swimming in this sea of lies

Building unsafe towers of alibi's

When you stand and look at me

You see yourself through eternities

There is no separate you and I

We were both born, we will both die

But when our truth is set to fly

In brilliance our souls will surely collide

Swallowed up in the unity

There was never a separate you and me.

~Natasha Head~